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  • Review – John Holden – Proximity & Chance – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Proximity & Chance – by John Wenlock-Smith

    ‘Proximity & Light’ is John Holden’s fifth album in six years, it all started with ‘Capture Light’ in 2018 which was followed by ‘Rise and Fall’ in 2020, ‘Circles in Time’ in 2021 and ‘Kintsugi’ in 2022, all of which contained some remarkable and diverse music from John and his chosen cast of colleagues. Well,…

  • Review – John Holden – Kintsugi – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Kintsugi – by John Wenlock-Smith

    ‘Kintsugi’ is the brand new album from Cheshire’s John Holden and it is another masterful collection of tracks that together tells eight stories of hope and redemption in our troubled world. Once again, John and his co-writer and wife and partner Elizabeth have created some beautiful  and sublime moments of music ranging from the epics,…

  • Review – John Holden – Circles In Time – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Circles In Time – by John Wenlock-Smith

    ‘Circles in Time’ is the third, and latest, album from John Holden who has, over a period of just 4 years, written and created three quite different albums that are all rooted in his love of progressive music by the likes of Yes, Genesis and many others. John lives about 5 miles from me, on…

  • Review – Silent Skies – Satellites

    Review – Silent Skies – Satellites

    The music of Silent Skies, the collaborative project between Tom S. Englund, vocalist of Swedish progressive group Evergrey, and virtuoso classical pianist Vikram Shankar, feels at once lushly cinematic, warmly intimate, darkly melancholic and incandescently beautiful. It’s making is a story of a deep musical kinship between two seemingly divergent talents. The pair first crossed…

  • Review – John Holden – Rise and Fall – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – John Holden – Rise and Fall – by John Wenlock-Smith

    John Holden’s Rise and Fall has been in my possession for a while now and I was very gratified to be given access to this remarkable album some three months prior to its official release. I was also very pleased that I had been thanked  in the album credits, that having been an ambition of…

  • Review – Redemption – Long Night’s Journey Into Day – by Progradar

    Review – Redemption – Long Night’s Journey Into Day – by Progradar

    If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! L.A. based prog metallers Redemption return with a supremely impressive example of the genre – ‘Long Night’s Journey Into Day’. Taking the title of Eugene O?Neill’s play Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which focuses on the decay of a family that’s plagued by addiction, Redemption have turned it…

  • Review – Lux Terminus – The Courage To Be – by Progradar

    Review – Lux Terminus – The Courage To Be – by Progradar

    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller. To a music mad amateur journalist like me, that statement applies to music just as much as anything else, if not more! When I hear an inspirational new piece of…